August 2022

RC Car Action

The Model Motorsports Authority

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Starting Line
Welcome back to a thicker issue of RC Car Action (RCCA). I’m excited to announce that we’ve added 16 pages to your favorite magazine! Our new bulkier 100-page package actually began with the previous issue of RCCA, continues forward here, and will be
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Editorial Director Jerry Tsai Features Editor Lauren Short Josh Monteith Lane Riggs James York Managing Editor Karl Funke Art Director Jeff Chen Web Development Cirrata Services Online News Editor Trevor “Chilly” Duncan Strategic Account Manager Leig
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Gearbox
Heavy duty X-Maxx suspension arms utilize composite material for extreme durability. Traxxas designed this composite specifically for high loads and hard landings with just the right amount of flex to resist breaking, even in cold weather. Whether yo
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Readers Rides
Welcome to a special edition of Readers Rides. Each of the trucks featured in this issue’s Readers Rides were built by 7th and 8th grade students from the New Hampton Community School District in New Hampton, Iowa. Their teacher, Josh Monteith, used
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Six appeal
For a single decade of F1 racing, the 1970s certainly had some of the most varied engineering we’ve seen on the grid. F1 at the time consisted of big dreams, big budgets and various unique car and aerodynamic designs. One of the wildest of these was
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Dirt Slinger
Bashing and buggies… those are hands-down my two favorite segments in the RC world. While many RC buggy enthusiasts focus on the heart-pounding excitement of competitive off-road racing, I prefer bashing my buggies on all terrains, always trying out
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Cutting The Fat
When shopping for a real car, truck or SUV, it’s commonly thought that “base model” vehicles immediately evoke the idea that it’s a lesser vehicle that isn’t as desirable as a “fully loaded” model. We’d venture to say that’s a fair assessment for the
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Heavy Metal basher
What does it mean to bash? RC bashing is the time-honored tradition of just plain having fun with your RC vehicle, making it do wild tricks, pull off impossible landings and even trying to break personal speed-run records. While speed and performance
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Horizon Hobby Rc Fest
Horizon Hobby’s RC Fest is a true hands-on celebration of the fun, power, speed and latest tech of RC. The event venue, located at Eli Field in Monticello, Illinois, is expansive, with plenty of parking and a huge aircraft hangar, paved runway, try-m
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A Special Rc Event
We spoke to Horizon Hobby Senior Field Marketing Manager, Andrew Ziegler, to ask what makes this event so special. Ziegler responded: “Horizon RC Fest is unlike any other RC event. Kids of ALL AGES (you know who you are!) can take advantage of all of
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Restoration research
Do you have an old, beloved RC kit in your collection that might need some work? Have you been scouring auction sites and classifieds in search of a vintage RC kit to possibly rebuild? Something maybe, say, 20+ years old? Well, that has been me relat
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Doin’ work
You don’t even need to get a good look at one to already know what it is. Even a quick or partial glance at a Chevrolet C/K pickup truck lets you instantly identify it. It is that iconic. The first C/K pickups were offered in 1959 as a 1960 model and
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School Of rock Crawling
Anyone involved in the world of radio-controlled vehicles understands the amount of patience, determination, creativity, persistence, perseverance, problem solving, camaraderie—and of course, fun—that is associated with building, driving and repairin
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The Real Deal
As full-scale off-road enthusiasts ourselves, it’s been truly fantastic to see how scale crawling has been so popular as of late. Seeing not only legacy RC companies embrace the crawler movement but also full-scale off-road brands support our hobby i
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Bauer Modular Toolbox System
Bauer Modular Toolboxes make up a multi-piece portable toolbox system from Harbor Freight. Made from durable resin materials and designed for heavy use, each toolbox in the system works in tandem with the others, ultimately comprising a five-piece se
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Test Bench
The Reef’s RC 99:Micro is a high-voltage digital micro servo that is designed to take on serious use. The 99:Micro features metal internal gears and two ball bearings for internal support and smooth operation. The coreless digital servo motor works w
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Special Project: built For Adventure
Editor’s note: Lane Riggs, aka @scale_nerd on Instagram, builds some truly eye-catching overland-style RC rigs. His creations are so realistic, in fact, that the pictures can sometimes trick you into thinking what you’re seeing is a life-size overlan
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Always Ready
For those of us RC enthusiasts who have standalone quick battery chargers—and let’s face it, that should be most of us—overlooking an included battery charger that comes with an RTR kit is commonplace. If you have a few RTRs that include such a perk,

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